Guide to Kids Site

Online Games

ABCD Watermelon
Leona sings the alphabet song, but keeps adding in silly words. It's your job to fill in the correct missing letters. It's a fun way to learn the alphabet song, and to learn to identify letters.

This game focuses on: Letter Knowledge

Alphabet Soup!
Words are hidden as noodles in alphabet soup. Each word is taken from the beginning of a riddle. Unscramble the word, and you get the punch line.

This game focuses on: Text Comprehension

Chicken Stacker
Try to stack five hens by clicking on words with the featured vowel in them. There's a different version of this game for each of the five short vowels: the "a" sound in the word map, the "e" in bet, the "i" in pin, the "o" in top, and the "u" in duck.

This game focuses on: Phonics

Coloring Pages
Pictures of your favorite Between the Lions characters to print out and color in! You'll also find more offline fun in our Printables area.

Flood!
The library has flooded, and Click needs help getting books back onto the right shelves. Books float by in groups of five, but each shelf only holds three. Choose three whose titles share a common theme.

This game focuses on: Text Comprehension

Fuzzy Lion Ears
This game features partially written words with accompanying pictures. As Leona presents each one, she'll say the word. Choose from three different letters to make the word you heard. Roll over each letter to hear its sound, or click on the picture to hear the word again. All three choices make real words that Leona will speak as you try them.

This game focuses on: Phonics

Gawain's Word
Our medieval knights blend words "joust" for fun. Each joust allows five challengers to go lance-to-lance with a featured knight. Using the featured rhymes, kids can practice the most common English spelling patterns.

This game focuses on: Letter Knowledge, Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary

Lionel's Talking Gizmo
In this listening game, kids can explore and discover a fun and funky sentence-maker. Click on the individual paw-fingers to change a word. Click the paw-palm to hear the new sentence.

This game focuses on: Text Comprehension

Pounce!
A great game for our youngest readers. Cleo is eager to pounce on a certain word. She says the word once, and will repeat it if you click on her. Listen, then choose the right word. If you're correct, she'll show you a picture and congratulate you. If you choose wrong, you'll have a chance to try again.

This game focuses on: Phonological Awareness

Synonym Sam's Lab
Help Sam and her loyal, lovable dog Rufus play with synonyms. She'll tell you what Rufus is up to, then it's your chance to describe what he's doing using other words. It's amusing, delightful, AND fun, all at the same time!

This game focuses on: Vocabulary

Vocabulary Games
Accompanying half the stories, these games stretch the learning of the stories by focusing on relevant vocabulary. Choose the correct word to fill in the blanks in a variety of sentences.

This game focuses on: Vocabulary

Word Morph Games
Accompanying half the stories, these games stretch the learning of the stories by focusing on relevant phonemes, onsets, and rimes. Can you spell the word you hear?

This game focuses on: Phonics

Word Play
In this game, kids can see words behave like their meanings: "pop" pops, "leap" leaps, and so on. Each word is also spoken aloud, and is enhanced with sound effects.

This game focuses on: Vocabulary

Offline Activities

Printables
This collection of things to print has something for everyone, from alphabet cut-outs and word games to Between the Lions number and letter coloring pages. Some specific features are...

Alphabet Cutouts
Printable letter-cards for use in a variety of word games.

This game focuses on: Letter Knowledge

Destination: Library
A Between the Lions board game. Follow the alphabet from A-Z, thinking of words that begin with these letters along the way.

This game focuses on: Vocabulary, Letter Knowledge

Letters and Numbers
Coloring Pages
Practice your letters or numbers with these printable pages.

This game focuses on: Letter Knowledge

Matching Games
A group of games based on rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, short vowels, initial letters, and categories.

This game focuses on: Vocabulary

Watson's Word Wall
Print these word-cards, then use them to create collaborative stories.

This game focuses on: Text Comprehension

Word Worms
Another story-starter game, this one with a letter-recognition component.

This game focuses on: Text Comprehension, Letter Knowledge

Other Areas

Video Clips
A collection of great Between the Lions songs and other clips from the show.

Stories
Video versions of our popular stories, accompanied by either a Word Morph Game or a Vocabulary Game specific to that story.

Lions To Go
Trying to find Between the Lions to take with you? Then look no further. Here you'll find free downloadable songs, stories, and more.